"After marriage they moved to Albany, N. Y., where he was a merchant in partnership with his brother-in-law John A. Crippen (No. 39, of this record). Afterwards they returned to Worcester, N. Y., where Mr. Wilder opened a general store; he was postmaster of Worcester for a time; about 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Wilder removed to Toledo, Iowa, where he with Philip G. Wieting and others organized a bank where he remained until about 1880, when he returned to Worcester, N. Y., and bought a controlling interest in the Bank of Worcester and became its president holding that office until his death." [Caroline (Watkins) Crippen, Silas Crippen and His Descendants, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York), Vol. 55, No. 4, p. 378]

"After marriage they moved to Albany, N. Y., where he was a merchant in partnership with his brother-in-law John A. Crippen (No. 39, of this record). Afterwards they returned to Worcester, N. Y., where Mr. Wilder opened a general store; he was postmaster of Worcester for a time; about 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Wilder removed to Toledo, Iowa, where he with Philip G. Wieting and others organized a bank where he remained until about 1880, when he returned to Worcester, N. Y., and bought a controlling interest in the Bank of Worcester and became its president holding that office until his death." [Caroline (Watkins) Crippen, Silas Crippen and His Descendants, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York), Vol. 55, No. 4, p. 378]